With Links to the Lessons From the Revised Common Lectionary, as modified for use in Episcopal worship
| January | February | March | April | May | June |
| July | August | September | October | November | December |
January 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 The Holy Name | 2 | |||||
| 3 Second Sunday after Christmas (Note: Episcopal readings differ from the "generic" RCL readings) | 4 | 5 | 6 The Epiphany | 7 | 8 Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary | 9 Julia Chester Emery, Missionary |
| 10 First Sunday after the Epiphany | 11 | 12 Aelred, Abbot | 13 Hillary, Bishop | 14 | 15 Martin Luther King | 16 |
| 17 Second Sunday after the Epiphany | 18 Confession of St Peter, Apostle | 19 Wulfstan, Bishop | 20 Fabian, Bishop and Martyr | 21 Agnes, Martyr | 22 Vincent, Deacon and Martyr | 23 Phillips Brooks, Bishop |
| 24 Third Sunday after the Epiphany | 25 Conversion of St Paul, Apostle | 26 Timothy and Titus | 27 John Chrysostom, Bishop | 28 Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar | 29 | 30 |
| 31 Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||||||
February 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Brigid (Bride) | 2 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple | 3 Anskar, Archbishop | 4 Cornelius, the Centurion | 5 Martyrs of Japan | 6 | |
| 7 Last Sunday after Epiphany | 8 | 9 | 10 Ash Wednesday | 11 | 12 | 13 Absalom Jones, Priest |
| 14 First Sunday in Lent | 15 Thomas Bray, Priest | 16 | 17 Janani Luwum, Archbishop | 18 Martin Luther | 19 | 20 |
| 21 Second Sunday in Lent | 22 | 23 Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr | 24 St Matthias, Apostle | 25 | 26 | 27 George Herbert, Priest |
| 28 Third Sunday in Lent | 29 | |||||
March 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales | 2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield | 3 John and Charles Wesley, Priests | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 Fourth Sunday in Lent | 7 Perpetua and her Companions | 8 | 9 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa | 10 | 11 | 12 Gregory the Great, Bishop |
| 13 Fifth Sunday in Lent | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 Patrick, Bishop | 18 Cyril, Bishop | 19 St Joseph |
| 20 Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday | 21 Monday in Holy Week | 22 Tuesday in Holy Week | 23 Wednesday in Holy Week | 24 Maundy Thursday | 25 Good Friday | 26 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil |
| 27 Easter Day Principal Evening | 28 Monday in Easter Week | 29 Tuesday in Easter Week | 30 Wednesday in Easter Week | 31 Thursday in Easter Week | | |
April 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| | 1 Friday in Easter Week | 2 Saturday in Easter Week | ||||
| 3 Second Sunday of Easter | 4 The Annunciation (transferred) | 5 | 6 | 7 Tikhon, Patriarch, Confessor, and Ecumenist | 8 William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest | 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 10 Third Sunday of Easter | 11 George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 Fourth Sunday of Easter | 18 | 19 Alphege, Archbishop and Martyr | 20 | 21 Anselm, Archbishop | 22 | 23 |
| 24 Fifth Sunday of Easter | 25 St Mark, Evangelist | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 Catherine of Siena | 30 |
May 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1Sixth Sunday of Easter | 2 St Philip and St James, Apostles (transferred) | 3 | 4 Monnica, Mother of Augustine | 5 Ascension Day | 6 | 7 |
| 8 Seventh Sunday of Easter | 9 Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 Day of Pentecost Whitsunday | 16 The First Book of Common Prayer | 17 | 18 | 19 Dunstan, Archbishop | 20 Alcuin, Deacon and Abbot | 21 |
| 22 First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday | 23 | 24 Jackson Kemper, Bishop | 25 Bede the Venerable | 26 Augustine, Archbishop | 27 | 28 |
| 29 Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 4 | 30 | 31 Visitation of the Blessed Virgin | ||||
June 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Justin, Martyr | 2 Martyrs of Lyon | 3 Martyrs of Uganda | 4 | |||
| 5 Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 Columba, Abbot | 10 Ephrem of Edessa | 11 St Barnabas, Apostle |
| 12 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 6 | 13 | 14 Basil the Great, Bishop | 15 Evelyn Underhill | 16 Joseph Butler, Bishop | 17 | 18 Bernard Mizeki, Martyr |
| 19 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7 | 20 | 21 | 22 Alban, Martyr | 23 | 24 Nativity of St John, the Baptist | 25 |
| 26 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 8 | 27 | 28 Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons | 29 St Peter and St Paul, Apostles | 30 | ||
July 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 9 | 4 Independence Day | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10 | 11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11 | 18 | 19 Macrina | 20 Stanton, Bloomer, Truth, Tubman | 21 | 22 Mary Magdalene | 23 |
| 24 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 12 | 25 St James, Apostle | 26 The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 27 William Reed Huntington, Priest | 28 | 29 Mary and Martha of Bethany | 30 William Wilberforce |
| 31 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 13 | ||||||
August 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Joseph of Arimathea | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 The Transfiguration | |
| 7 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 14 | 8 Dominic, Priest and Friar | 9 | 10 Laurence, Deacon and Martyr | 11 Clare, Abbess | 12 Florence Nightingale | 13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop |
| 14 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 15 | 15 St Mary, the Virgin | 16 | 17 | 18 William Porcher Dubose, Priest | 19 | 20 Bernard, Abbot |
| 21 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 16 | 22 | 23 | 24 St Bartholomew, Apostle | 25 Louis, King of France | 26 | 27 Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle |
| 28 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 17 | 29 | 30 | 31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne | |||
September 2016 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon | 2 The Martyrs of New Guinea | 3 | ||||
| 5 Labor Day | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 Constance, Nun, and her Companions | 10 Alexander Crummell, 1898 | |
| 11 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 | 12 John Henry Hobart, Bishop | 13 Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr | 14 Holy Cross Day | 15 | 16 Ninian, Bishop | 17 Hildegard of Bingen |
| 18 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 | 19 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop | 20 John Coleridge Patteson | 21 St Matthew, Evangelist | 22 Philander Chase, Bishop | 23 | 24 |
| 25 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21 | 26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop | 27 | 28 | 29 St Michael and All Angels | 30 Jerome, Priest | |
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Remigius, Bishop | ||||||
| 2 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 22 | 3 | 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar | 5 | 6 William Tyndale, Priest | 7 | 8 |
| 9 Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 23 | 10 Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace | 11 Philip, Deacon and Evangelist | 12 | 13 | 14 Samuel Schereschewsky, Bishop | 15 Teresa of Avila, Nun |
| 16 Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 24 | 17 Ignatius, Bishop and Martyr | 18 St Luke, Evangelist | 19 Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25 | 24 St James of Jerusalem (Transferred) | 25 | 26 Alfred the Great | 27 | 28 St Simon & St Jude, Apostles | 29 James Hannington, Bishop, and his Companions |
| 30 Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 26 | 31 Vigil of All Saints (White for vigil) | |||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Note: If All Saints' Day is additionally observed on Sunday, use white | 1 All Saints' Day | 2 Commemoration of All Faithful Departed | 3 Richard Hooker, Priest | 4 | 5 | |
| 7 Willibrord, Archbishop | 8 | 9 | 10 Leo the Great, Bishop | 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours | 12 Charles Simeon, Priest | |
| 13 Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 28 | 14 Consecration of Samuel Seabury | 15 | 16 Margaret, Queen of Scotland | 17 Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln | 18 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby | 19 Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary |
| 20 Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King | 21 | 22 Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Writer | 23 Clement, Bishop | 25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest | 26 | |
| 27 First Sunday of Advent | 28 Kamehameha and Emma | 29 | 30 St Andrew, Apostle | |||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon | 2 Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop | 3 | ||||
| 4 Second Sunday of Advent | 5 Clement of Alexandria, Priest | 6 Nicholas, Bishop | 7 Ambrose, Bishop | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 Third Sunday of Advent | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 Fourth Sunday of Advent | 19 | 20 | 21 St Thomas, Apostle | 22 | 23 | 24 Christmas Eve |
| 25 Christmas Day Christmas I Christmas II Christmas III | 26 St Stephen, Deacon and Martyr | 27 St John, Apostle and Evangelist | 28 Holy Innocents | 29 Thomas Becket | 30 Francis Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer | 31 |
Notes:
The Sunday Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. The year which begins with Advent 2015 and ends at Advent 2016 is Year C. The year which began at Advent 2014 and ended at Advent 2015 is Year B. The First Sunday of Advent 2016 begins Year A.
The Bible translation used is The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
The collects and the Psalms are from the Book of Common Prayer. The collects use the contemporary wording.
The liturgical color appropriate for the day is indicated, when the color is green, red or purple, by the color of the numeral against a light grey background. When the liturgical color is white, the numeral is black against a white background.
On weekdays, other than major Holy Days, the color indicated is the color appropriate to the season. When celebrating the feast of a martyred saint, red is also appropriate.
Return to The Lectionary Page.
Last updated on May 22, 2015